Business & Finance

Dating app Bumble Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd is considered the youngest self-made female billionaire.

Jeff Bezos' grandfather made his own needles by hand for the cattle on his ranch.

Bond yields are the returns investors earn from a bond's interest—and they're a key economic barometer.

The Federal Reserve Act's foundation was laid in a secretive meeting at the world's most prestigious club.

Amazon's largest profit engine is the cloud-computing platform Amazon Web Services.

The drink that became Coca-Cola was originally called 'Pemberton's French Wine Coca.'

Visualize the US jobs projected to shrink the fastest over the next decade.

More than half of today's family offices were incorporated after 2010.

The rare, so-called 'assumable' mortgage is landing homebuyers a 3% rate.

The history of Anthropic began with a break from OpenAI over safety concerns.

Prediction markets and sports betting are not forms of investing, despite how some fans portray them.

John D. Rockefeller—the world's first billionaire—was born to a well-known con artist father.

Digital coupon platform Groupon IPO'd in 2011 at a $17.8B market cap, but as of 2024 was worth just $103M—a 99.4% decrease.

College sticker prices can be misleading, as most students don't actually pay the advertised price due to financial aid.

Companies go public via an initial public offering (IPO) to raise large amounts of capital, helping them expand, invest in new ventures, hire more staff, or pay off debts.

See how the level of public trust in the Federal Reserve Chair has changed over time, from Alan Greenspan's 74% trust level to Janet Yellen's 38%.

Read a timeline of all of Elon Musk's business ventures, from the software company Zip2 in the 1990s to Musk's Twitter acquisition.

OpenAI initially focused on novelty projects, like training AI bots to win video games, before becoming known for its AI chatbot ChatGPT.

A report found that the 2026 Iran war is the largest oil supply disruption in history.

Until late 2024, the company that makes McDonald's ice cream machines held an elusive repair monopoly on them, the culprit behind the frequent outages that fueled widespread social media discourse.

Former LuLaRoe vendors have accused the clothing multilevel marketing company of operating a pyramid scheme, resulting in more than 50 lawsuits and a $4.75M settlement.

Visualize the world's top 50 private equity firms in 2025 by capital raised.

Explore the 2025 Uber Lost & Found Index to find out the weirdest items that passengers left behind in Ubers last year, from ten live lobsters to a mannequin head with human hair.

Charlie Munger was Warren Buffett's right-hand man, serving as vice-chair at Berkshire Hathaway until his death in 2023.

The average salary for Harvard MBA grads within 3 months of graduating is $193,837.

Learn about what causes economic bubbles, including how forces like cheap credit, soaring optimism, and feedback loops push asset prices far beyond fundamentals—until a single shock triggers panic, selling, and a rapid collapse.

Before starting Apple, Steve Jobs cold-called HP at 12 years old and got a summer job.

Mark Zuckerberg said some of the details in 'The Social Network' movie were spot-on—but most of the story arcs were inaccurate.

Learn about CD ladders, the investing strategy in which one buys multiple CDs with different maturity dates to capitalize on high interest rates with longer-term CDs while keeping liquidity with shorter-term CDs.

Nike only paid $35 for its famous swoosh logo—and cofounder Phil Knight didn't like it at first.

Fort Knox was originally built to be a secure facility for the US Treasury's gold reserves back when the US still operated under the gold standard, a system in which a country's currency is pegged to, and can be converted into, a fixed amount of gold.

The US government is legally allowed to borrow money from the Social Security Trust Fund surpluses as long as it issues Treasury bonds to the Trust Fund in return and repays those bonds with interest when Social Security needs the money to pay benefits.

See how SpaceX compares to history's other largest IPOs.

Visualize tipping norms around the world with this map that reveals the US tips more service providers and leaves larger amounts than anywhere else globally.

'The consumer isn't a moron, she's your wife' is among David Ogilvy's most memorable pieces of advertising advice.

Opponents of the federal estate tax began using the term 'death tax' in the 1940s to sway public opinion.

When Steve Jobs recruited former CEO Tim Cook to work at Apple in 1998, the company was on the verge of bankruptcy—and many of Cook's friends advised him not to take the job.

The 'Gruen transfer' refers to the price psychology behind large shopping malls, where shoppers make spontaneous purchases due to the overwhelming exposure to a variety of stores.

Listen to this podcast episode detailing the origin story of Wall Street's famous bronze Charging Bull statue.

Queens, New York housewife Jean Nidetch founded Weight Watchers in 1963 after someone mistook her for being pregnant.

From Ozempic to Wegovy, see the $58B weight loss drug market visualized in one chart.

Visualize where the first batch of founders from the famous startup accelerator Y Combinator are now.

Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 after initially attempting to purchase ballistic missiles in Europe and Russia, hoping to launch a rocket carrying a plant or animal to Mars to spark global interest in colonizing the planet, but found them too expensive.

Before the Great Recession, lax requirements to get a mortgage resulted in mass defaults that left nearly 19 million homes vacant.

A Yale student wrote a profound essay about the consulting industry's influence on elite college students that was published in a book of her writing after she died in a post-graduation car accident.

Watch this video that uses Lego bricks to explain how venture capital works.

See a ranking of the best (and worst) Federal Reserve Chairs since 1914 out of the 16 men and women who have held the office since.

The first steps to rebuilding your credit score include getting to know exactly what's on your credit report and figuring out how far you are from the '700 club,' or 'good score' range.

Some coin denominations have ridges etched on their sides, partly to prevent counterfeiting, in a practice called 'reeding.'

Play the role of a student in a game where you try to navigate college and remain debt-free, selecting different income levels, high school experience, race, ethnicity, and more.